The Bottineau pioneer., 1887-04-21
POWDEREY REJOICES
Because the Anarchist Candidates for Chicags
City Offices We're Laid Out Cold.

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! City Offices We're Laid Ont Cold.
At a meeting OF Knights ofLabor repre-
senting every district in Pennsylvania, held
| at Harrisburg, to consider the bills per-
*aining to labor now pending in the legisla-
! ture, the general master workman express
ed himself we'll pleased with the result
| OF the Chicago election. A public meeting
was held in the house OF representatives
Mr.. Powderly presided and made a speech,
in which he asserted:
Labor had q right to be repl esented here
| by men to look afterits interests in the leg.
islature. He referred to the monopolistic
corpC rations being represented in leglsla-
tive halls, and said it was time the
| labor men Of Pennsylvania emu.
lated the example OF their brethren in New
Jersey and insist upon the examination OF
| all labor bills before they were passed.
"We are charged with being anarchists and
| favoring measures that tend to anarchy.
| As chief OF our organization can say that
anarchy finds no abiding place in our
! midst; but monopolists want to make
| people believe the contrary. No matter
| what errors we have committed in the past,
we have always aimed at doing right. We
have pursued a line OF policy and found out
things that are right and wrong but we have
| always kept clear OF the one thing that brings
odium on our country anarchy" He re-
| joiced, therefore, is the defeat OF the anar.
chist candidates in Chicago. 1 was glad to
see that the workingmen OF that city were
good enough to throw the lie back into the
| faces to those who posed as their friends
and representatives. No sooner did the
anarchist ticket 60 before the people than
itssupporters said, We will carry the ticket
under the flag on whose lace not one star.
gllstens, not one stripe is to be found, and
| the teaching of such men as Powderly and
Grifiths will have no weight with u.s. But
al
| showed under as it was never showed un-
der before, and I say amen to that every
time.
BURST OF PATRIOTISM.
did not know but what in the decora-
tion OF this hall you might forget to
place the American flag on the walls
Thursday, that it might be for
ing, There Mr.. Powderly exhibited flag
amid tremendous applause], and |
brought it here so that if it were charged
that we were not Americans, we could show
that we were. don't care where I was
born; don't care where the rest OF you
were born; but we swear by that flag and
no other. Let them Tomorrow morn
plause charge us with being any
thing but free-born American citizens, and
these manifestations which you have given
expression to will be the refutation OF that
lie which will ring down the century in
condemnation OF the red flag. Now broth
ers, we are here and we will stand or fall
by the sentiments Ihave given utterance to.
We are here as Americans to watch
American legislation in the interests of
the American people and in our Amer
lcan way and also to say that these
men who assembled a hundred years
ago inPhiladelphia and gave out the Dec
laration OF independence to the world were
| right when they declared that all men were
created free and equal and endowed with
certain inalienable rights, and that we
believe they told the truth and that it
still continues to be the truth instead OF
living lie, as some OF these men would
have people believe. We can do this with
out being anarchists, without being
partisans and without being tied to
the charcoal wheels OF either the old demo-
cratic or republican party. 1t was now an
by his own labor to support his family. He
had to call in the help OF his wife and chill
dren. He wanted the barriers between a
life OF shame and a life of virtuous industry
greater than fifty cents q day. The chill
dren should be taken off the coal breaker
and kept at school. The public could not
exist on a red flag foundation ofignorance,
vice and crime.
Industrial schools should be established
and hands and brains educated at the
same time. The legislature a few years
ago would not have paid the slightest at
tenJion to labor organization, but now
the knights of labor could defeat any can
didate, and SO a word to the wisein this legis-
lation would be sufficient. The boycott was
wrong for the man that was boycotted,
and so was the blacklisting wrong for the
man that made the blacklist. He did not
believe in either system. He believed in
arbitration and he would make arbitra-
ii on compulsory.
Important Cabinet Meeting.